Colleges across the country are recognizing students from Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High for their on-campus success. Click any achievement to discover alumni from Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High, view their personalized Merit pages, and learn about what they are accomplishing.
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Colleges across the country are recognizing students from Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High for their on-campus success. Click any achievement to discover alumni from Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High, view their personalized Merit pages, and learn about what they are accomplishing.

The State University of New York at Geneseo has announced its Dean's List for the fall semester 2017. To be on the list, a student must have achieved at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking a minimum of 12 credit hours.

Twenty six SUNY Oneonta students attended The NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show in Anaheim, Calif., from Jan. 25 to 28. The annual trade show is a The NAMM Show is a place for professionals in the music industry to explore and discover innovative new products being released in the new year. The students got a firsthand look at how music retail and music business go hand-in-hand, testing out the latest products from more than 7,000 brands, attending cutting-edge industry education sessions and demonstrations, and seeing lots of live performances.

The New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) 2017 Fall Academic All-Conference honorees were announced by the league on Friday with nine of the student-athletes being recognized hailing from Southern Vermont College.

Each semester, full-time students who have achieved a minimum GPA of 3.65 are placed on the Dean's List. Those students included on the Dean's List have completed at least 12 credits of graded course work with no incompletes or grades below C at the close of the semester.

SUNY Oswego has awarded Presidential Scholarships to a select group of students who started at the college in fall 2017. The scholarships are $20,000 over four years -- $5,000 a year -- for students residing on campus. Off-campus Presidential Scholarships are $2,500 a year.

As first-year students embark on their college experience, they will all take part in Loyola's living learning program, Messina. The common text for Messina is Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson. The book, a compelling first-hand account of a lawyer who defends the poor and wrongly condemned, speaks to the inequality in the justice system.

Four SUNY Oneonta students are involved in a year-long project with the goal of shaping the future of science education by designing and creating their own instructional models for use in classrooms. The project, titled "Authentic Research Experiences for Earth Science Education Majors," gives pre-service Earth Science teachers the chance to design and build their own models of particularly complex or abstract Earth processes and concepts, according to project leaders Dr. James Ebert of the Earth &amp; Atmospheric Sciences Department and Dr. Paul Bischoff of the Secondary Education Department. Participating students, who were selected from a pool of applicants, spent four weeks in the spring designing and building the models and will work throughout the year to tweak and perfect them. Four of the students were from SUNY Oneonta, and two were from other SUNY schools. The students were given a stipend of $2,500 for their work. Six more students will participate next year, with six more after that.

Congratulations to the students who have graduated from the 10 week leadership development program. The program is designed for freshman and sophomores to learn and develop skills in challenging topics including: leadership ethics, conflict resolution, public speaking, and inclusive excellence. Students are then encouraged to apply what they have learned to their daily life so that they can successfully lead by example in their community.

Lycoming College has selected from a pool of applicants the resident student mentors for the 2016-2017 academic year. Resident student mentors act as an academic resource for students enrolled in first-year seminars. Students in specific seminars also live together on the same floor of their residence hall. The mentors attend the first-year seminars and provide enriching academic events monthly, facilitate one-on-ones with each student, and hold weekly open office Hours.